*If you order qualifies for free shipping and is under 1lb your order will ship via USPS 1st Class Mail. Check-out our NEW WEBSITE for Additional Inventory & Fabric Selections - WWW.FABRIC-FETISH.COM The Booklet is by Jen Kingwell. This pattern is in book form and not available for Download . Quilt Measures 150cm x 173cm (59” x 86”) Wanderer's Wife is Jen’s top seller. A puzzle of beautiful blocks – a signature style of Jen’s! This clever quilt will keep even the most advanced sewers entertained and features the Block - Crazy Anne, India Hatchet and Nurses Cross This pattern is written for machine piecing. Block of the Month friendly. Skill Level: Intermediate-advanced. We offer FREE Domestic Shipping on all orders with a subtotal of $50 or more. Discount automatically applied at checkout. MY INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING RATES - Shipping overages are REFUNDED back to you at the time of shipping Example for Shipping Cotton Poplin CANADA: *Plus $1.35 per each $100 Value for Insurance. Up to 1 yard $8.95 Up to 2.5 yards $10.95 Up to 5 yards $13.95 Up to 7.5 yards $16.95 Up to 10 yards $23.95 Example for Shipping Cotton Poplin WORLDWIDE: *Plus $1.35 per each $100 Value for Insurance. Up to 1 yard $10.95 Up to 2.5 yards $15.95 Up to 5 yards $17.95 Up to 7.5 Yards $23.95 Up to 10 yards $35.95 *If you order qualifies for free shipping and is under 1lb your order will ship via USPS 1st Class Mail.

Purchase this quilt pattern called Wanderer's (Gypsy) Wife by Jen Kingwell Designs. The booklet includes all instructions to make the quilt. Finished Quilt Size: 150cm x 173cm (59" x 68") 3rd Edition Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced

The following is a list of all the block tutorials for Farmer’s Wife 1930’s Sampler Quilt Sew-along. Click a link to see the tutorial. Tutorials are listed in numerical and alphabetical order as per the book: Addie – Click here for tutorial Aimee – Click here for tutorial Alice – Click here for tutorial Ann...

The Gypsy Wife is an intricate quilt pattern designed by Jen Kingwell. The Gypsy Wife Quilt finishes to 59in by 68in and features a collage of quilt blocks and stripes. This intermediate/advanced level pattern is a block of the month (BOM) friendly quilt project.

If you’re sewing-along to make Jen Kingwell’s Gypsy Wife quilt, this week’s assignment is our first block with partial seams. Don’t let that scare you! Hope from Hartford is a clever little block. I have some tips to help.

On 3 August Nicole Calver (of Snips Snippets) and I will be kicking off the Jen Kingwell’s Gypsy Wife Quilt Sew-along. Jen...

Admins have been working behind the scenes trying to make this Section 6 more palatable to everyone. It is such a large section with 21 blocks! We don't want anyone to be overwhelmed with the amount of work in this section. You, of course, can take the information from the TOC and work through at your own pace, but we have decided to break it down into three more manageable sections. So take your time and enoy! Tutorials for each section will be released over the next three months as follows: Section 6 Left...9 blocks.... June 1. Nurses Cross ... 8in Pinwheel with 1 border ... 6in Bordered Square-in-a-Square Hourglass ... 5in Court House Step ... 4in and make five (5) Square-in-a-Square ... 3in Section 6 Center....5 block.... July 6 Pinwheel no border ... 4in Court House Steps ... 4in Square-in-a-Square ... 4in Hourglass with border .... Square-in-a-Square ... 3in Section 6 Right.....7 blocks.... August 3 Indian Hatchet ... 6in Pinwheel with 1 border ... 6in Courthouse Steps with 3 borders ... 5in Bordered Square-in-a-Square ... 5in Square-in-a-Square ... 3in and Two (2) Square-in-a-Square ... 4in

This is Dana's Gypsy Wife quilt, pattern by Jen Kingwell Jen Kingwell patterns are always so much fun to quilt, and Dana's fabric choices are so interesting to explore as I quilt. Dana added some length to the quilt to make it bed sized. Here are 3 photos of the same part of the quilt...before quilting during quilting and fresh off the frame When quilting this sort of a quilt, I try to leave some frames (and in this quilt some of the long strips) unquilted, to give the eyes a bit of a resting place, and it's another way of adding texture as well. Dana and I decided to group several of the stripes together in the quilting--and to keep the quilting costs reasonable this was all freehand--no rulers. I'm so lucky my Innova can handle ditching vertically and horizontally so easily. I picked several quilting designs and just kept repeating them, always a good method for sampler quilts, where each block is unique. So many photos....but each part of the quilt is unique.... I have fun spotting fabrics I've used in quilts before... The quilting shows nicely on the back too---love using a wool batting.

It is time to begin working on Section 7. There are 7 blocks in this section Square in a square w 2 borders... 7in Square in a Square w Courthouse Steps... 4in Square in a Square w Pinwheel Ctr... 5in (two) Square in a Square... 4in (two) Square in a Square... 3in

i have no new blocks to share just yet, so i am sharing a copy of megan's beautiful work as she assembles section 1 of the gypsy wife quilt. by the way, she has written a brilliant tutorial on assembling the block sections with partial seams. it's got me thinking they aren't so bad after all! now, just because i finished it and also because there are busy friends out there who are working ahead of the quilt along schedule, i'm sharing the spreadsheet i made for the blocks, broken down by section and month of the quilt along. there is no pressure to work ahead! everyone should feel like they can work at their own pace, whatever that is. click images to enlarge again, why do they come out different sizes?! you can download a pdf copy of the block chart here. or, if you are viewing it on your cell phone, you can click on the chart to enlarge the image, and then take a screen shot, which you can then zoom in on. it might be handier for some people to have a copy on their phone. if you are confused about the "block id" column, that was for personal use. when i was working my way thru the book the first time around, i found it helpful to give each block an id tag, which i marked in the instructions and in the assembly charts for cross-referencing purposes. you can just ignore it. i've seen several section 1's already assembled on instagram at the hashtag #GypsyWifeQuiltSection1 (and even some section 2's!) it's pretty exciting to see so many of them coming together. now that my sewing room renovations are complete, as of yesterday, i can assembly my own section 1 this weekend. we can do this, friends! as always, you can follow along with everyone over on instagram at #GypsyWifeQuiltAlong2016.

Here's my Gypsy Wife quilt!!! I sewed the blocks in 2018 as a QAL (quilt along) with two groups I belong to. Then I spent all of January and the first half of February assembling and finishing it, in order to enter it in our quilt show on February 15th. As it says in the pattern, putting these blocks together "is a journey"! In other words, it's a lot of work, just when you thought you were done with a lot of work, AKA sewing zillions of random blocks! Below are my blocks on the design wall. I recommend labeling each one with the finished size in inches. Then when it's laid out on the design wall, you can switch blocks that are the exact same size and spread out the color arrangement. This is before rearrangement: The pattern makes a quilt that finishes at 59" X 68", which is not a very useful size for me--I don't have any wall space to hang such a big quilt, and it's too fancy for a sofa throw quilt. So after surrounding the body of the quilt with a narrow indigo border, I carried the background strips into the outside and added a 10" border. Halfway there: Here are my background strips, trying to keep them in order! The finished size came out 81" X 90", just right for a full size bed. Quilt top: I used wool batting and did custom quilting on each block: All my fabrics are Japanese, either vintage, recycled or modern reproductions of traditional prints: Here's my finished quilt hanging at the quilt show: Below are Sunny's quilt (left) and Arlette's quilt (right): And here's Jeanette's version: I was honored to get a second place ribbon on mine: Gypsy Wife is quite a journey! If you haven't taken the journey yet, I recommend it. Grace and peace!!! ~Nancy Linking up to: Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle & Thread Thursday, TGIFF, Confessions of a Fabric Addict, Friday Foto Fun, Busy Hands Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, Sew Can She, Favorite March Finish.

On 3 August Nicole Calver (of Snips Snippets) and I will be kicking off the Jen Kingwell’s Gypsy Wife Quilt Sew-along. Jen...

I haven't blogged in quite some time... I think life just got very busy between family and work. The loss of several people... family and f...

I finally finished my Gypsy wife quilt. Which was on the frame for about 3 weeks I think. It only took me three evenings and an afternoon to actually quilt, but I had some machine issues, plus finished a bunch of quilt tops. I have 9 tops on my to-quilt list, which considering I was all caught up be

Time to assemble Section 9. Here are all the blocks laid out. Referring to the diagram on page ____ cut your strips and lay them out beside the blocks. I then assemble strip sets Sew the strips sets to the SquareNsquare blocks as shown I don't think I've ever discussed this before, but here is the back to show you how I've been pressing the strips in one direction... except around blocks. A little snip of the seam allow me to flip it in the opposite direction. Sew the strip set to the side of the SquareNsquare blocks. There is a partial seam to allow addition of strips below and the bordered pinwheel block. Add the strip set below the SquareNsquare block Sew the Bordered Pinwheel to the stripset You can now close the partial seam to the bottom of the bordered pinwheel block Add the Hope for Hartford block below the Bordered Pinwheel Close the partial seam beside the Hope from Hartford Block. Sew on the Old Maid Puzzle Block and add the final long strip to complete this section.

It’s the first of two assembly weeks for the Jen Kingwell’s Gypsy Wife Quilt Sew-along. This week you’ll be assembling...

Below is the diagram for Section 5. There are 7 blocks in this section. As always, be very careful in your cutting, keeping your ruler line ON the fabric. Also check your 1/4in seam if your block measurements are off. A scant seam is your best friend! If you have any questions, please message any Admin or Moderator. We are almost constantly monitoring the FB page to help you.

“Gypsy Wife” by Jen Kingwell is one of my all-time favourite quilt patterns. I had so much fun making this quilt and it’s reflected in my fussy cutting and colours. Raylee Bielenberg, of Sunflower Quilting, has custom quilted my quilt top and it’s stunning. MY VERSION OF “GYPSY WIFE” BLOCK TUTORIALS Click an image below...

We will be launching two sections together this month ... Section 3 & 4. Both sections together total only 6 blocks so we thought that we would combine them. By combining these two sections it will give us the opportunity to deal with Section 6 later. Section 5 will launch next month and has only 7 blocks, so that is completely doable. But, Section 6 ... well, it has a boatload of blocks (21!) so we are discussing breaking it into three groups so no one is overwhelmed or overworked in that month. We'll update you later; not to worry. Just have fun and relax! You can leave comments and questions below. I will reply to your comments ASAP. Thanks for following along. Click on "newer post" to begin the tutorials.

Borders: Framing Your Quilt You have many options when it comes to borders or framing your Gypsy Wife quilt. I am wanting mine to h...

We will be working on this last part of Section 6(right). There are 7 blocks in this part of the section Indian Hatchet.... 6in Pinwheel with Border.... 6in Courthouse Steps with 3 borders .... 4in Bordered Square-in-a-Square.... 5in Square-in-a-Square.... (1) 3in and (2) 4in

Here's my Gypsy Wife quilt!!! I sewed the blocks in 2018 as a QAL (quilt along) with two groups I belong to. Then I spent all of January and the first half of February assembling and finishing it, in order to enter it in our quilt show on February 15th. As it says in the pattern, putting these blocks together "is a journey"! In other words, it's a lot of work, just when you thought you were done with a lot of work, AKA sewing zillions of random blocks! Below are my blocks on the design wall. I recommend labeling each one with the finished size in inches. Then when it's laid out on the design wall, you can switch blocks that are the exact same size and spread out the color arrangement. This is before rearrangement: The pattern makes a quilt that finishes at 59" X 68", which is not a very useful size for me--I don't have any wall space to hang such a big quilt, and it's too fancy for a sofa throw quilt. So after surrounding the body of the quilt with a narrow indigo border, I carried the background strips into the outside and added a 10" border. Halfway there: Here are my background strips, trying to keep them in order! The finished size came out 81" X 90", just right for a full size bed. Quilt top: I used wool batting and did custom quilting on each block: All my fabrics are Japanese, either vintage, recycled or modern reproductions of traditional prints: Here's my finished quilt hanging at the quilt show: Below are Sunny's quilt (left) and Arlette's quilt (right): And here's Jeanette's version: I was honored to get a second place ribbon on mine: Gypsy Wife is quite a journey! If you haven't taken the journey yet, I recommend it. Grace and peace!!! ~Nancy Linking up to: Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle & Thread Thursday, TGIFF, Confessions of a Fabric Addict, Friday Foto Fun, Busy Hands Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, Sew Can She, Favorite March Finish.

This is Dana's Gypsy Wife quilt, pattern by Jen Kingwell Jen Kingwell patterns are always so much fun to quilt, and Dana's fabric choices are so interesting to explore as I quilt. Dana added some length to the quilt to make it bed sized. Here are 3 photos of the same part of the quilt...before quilting during quilting and fresh off the frame When quilting this sort of a quilt, I try to leave some frames (and in this quilt some of the long strips) unquilted, to give the eyes a bit of a resting place, and it's another way of adding texture as well. Dana and I decided to group several of the stripes together in the quilting--and to keep the quilting costs reasonable this was all freehand--no rulers. I'm so lucky my Innova can handle ditching vertically and horizontally so easily. I picked several quilting designs and just kept repeating them, always a good method for sampler quilts, where each block is unique. So many photos....but each part of the quilt is unique.... I have fun spotting fabrics I've used in quilts before... The quilting shows nicely on the back too---love using a wool batting.

It’s often challenging to sew together differently sized blocks. Add to that the Gypsy Wife’s pieced, striped background and very minimal instruction booklet and you can expect the process might get rocky. Here are some tips to help you on your way.

I have my first big quilt finish of the year to share with you today - it's my Gypsy Wife quilt. I started this as part of the quilt-along hosted by @GnomeAngel back in the summer and decided to go totally scrappy for the blocks and low volume for the background.This was the recipe I had used for my Long Time Gone quilt and I love it. After a few blocks, I decided I didn't like it this time. We had to take Mia into A&E one Sunday (nothing serious) and while we sat in the waiting room, she played on her tablet, and I coloured in a print-out of the quilt - can't go wrong with a rainbow. And I started again. Of course, I was well behind, and I stayed that way unfortunately. Even in the week after Christmas, I still believed I could make it - a finished quilt top by the 2nd January. I spent a few hours cutting all the background strips (what a job... not just the cutting, but keeping them organised)! But I had to give in. There was just too much to do and definitely not enough time. So the 2nd January passed. I still had some blocks to make and the construction of the quilt itself looked like quite the task. It was my birthday at the end of January, and for the first time in my life, I treated myself by taking a couple of days off work. Two whole days to sew - uninterrupted! Which was exactly what I needed to get this quilt done. I managed to get all the blocks pieced and a couple of the sections together ahead of my two golden days. But let me tell you, this quilt, and the construction part in particular, is not for beginners. It really stretched me - working out what seam to sew next, knowing I had some partial seams, and just making sure my layout was spot on. It was so much more fun than boring sashing! By the end of day 1 I had a finished quilt top, and that evening, at our local quilt group, I got it basted. The next day I set up the machine to free motion quilt and 3 hours later it was done. I quilted it with an all-over free motion stipple with cream thread on the front and pale green on the back. The backing is a duvet cover from Dunelm and I love the large scale of it. I pulled all the dark greys from my stash and cut myself a scrappy binding and by 3pm the quilt was finished! How very efficient! My birthday quilt! With the exception of the wadding, every piece of fabric in this quilt came from my stash. I made a vow this year to try fussy cutting, and I'm pretty pleased with the odd piece I included - I especially love the telephone. I also love that my quilt has "pissed" on it! Wonder how long it will take my mum to notice that! It's just such a happy, rainbowy quilt! I'm sad I couldn't get it done in time for the end of the quilt along, but I had a ball putting it together in peace and on my birthday! This is a finish from my Finish Along list, which you can find here.

Why do we make quilts? Is it the journey or the destination? This journey was rich, color-focused, slow and meandering. I used my full cadre of Anna Maria Horner fabrics , sparing none, enjoying all.

“Gypsy Wife” by Jen Kingwell is one of my all-time favourite quilt patterns. I had so much fun making this quilt and it’s reflected in my fussy cutting and colours. Raylee Bielenberg, of Sunflower Quilting, has custom quilted my quilt top and it’s stunning. MY VERSION OF “GYPSY WIFE” BLOCK TUTORIALS Click an image below...

I quilted another Jen Kingwell quilt for Dianne for this year's Stampede show - Gypsy Wife. It won a first place ribbon! I have to say, these quilts are growing on me. They are rather busy, but also very random and colourful, which I love!

Hello fellow Gypsies (and everyone following along)! It’s time to finish our sampler quilt journey. I’ve really enjoyed cohosting the 2019 Gypsy Wife Quilt-Along with @ScrappyViolet . It’s a quilt I’ve wanted to make for a long time.

the strips of the gypsy wife quilt form a major portion of its distinctive character. on the back of the pattern, the requirements list c...

Welcome, welcome new friends and old. I would like to take a quick minute to show you all my entry into this season of Sewvivor. Fair warnin...

Hi, all! Scraps, scraps everywhere - they can really consume you, can't they? But every so often, it's nice to have a finish, and be able to look at it and know that you took something that could have been thrown away and turned it into something beautiful. You may have seen this post about my Long Time Gone quilt... ...and today, I'm happy to say that now I can add Gypsy Wife to the (nearly) finished column! I went back and looked through my pictures, and found this one, dated August 8, 2017. That was the day that I started Gypsy Wife, a Jen Kingwell pattern. The fabrics are Latitude batiks by Kate Spain, and were a wonderful and unexpected gift from Kate herself. I came home one day to an enormous box on my doorstep, filled with scraps of the line before it even came out, along with a note from Kate saying SURPRISE! I divided them up into cool and warm colors, pressed and sorted them into these tubs, and started on Gypsy Wife. The blocks have been finished for a while, but trying to find time to set them into the background strips was hard to do, with so many projects going on. However, last week I decided that it was time to put those blocks together, AND I DID! Bear with me, because I've got a lot of pics! Isn't it gorgeous? I love the way it looks like the blocks are floating on the vertical strips. And even though it was windy, I wanted to get a stained glass shot (or two or three...) I tried to use mostly warm colors in my blocks, with cool tones as the backgrounds. Then I used all cool tones as the background vertical strips. This quilt has a nice variety of blocks, and is a great way to learn to piece well. There are no paper pieced blocks in this quilt, either. Hooray! I made one mistake in this quilt - well, at least one! - as I found as I was piecing the last section that one of the blocks I had left wasn't what was called for in that space. But by then, I wasn't going to go find where I messed up earlier and take it apart, so I made it work. At least I'll be able to identify it as mine and no one else's! It was such a rarity to have sunlight, I even love this shot with the sun glare! One final shot as the sun sets in the west. And don't think that this top is going to languish on a rack waiting to be quilted - I ordered another wool batt which arrived today, and the back is made and ready to go. I need to quilt one more ministry quilt to reach a self-imposed finish goal before I load Gypsy Wife on the frame, so I should get to start on it tomorrow sometime. I can't wait to try out some new designs that I picked up from Christina Cameli's new book, Step-by-Step Texture Quilting! I still have scraps, scraps everywhere - even in the Latitude tubs - button I have two beautiful scrap quilts that I will be keeping for myself. And I'm so inspired to keep making scrap quilts! Hugs! Sarah

i have no new blocks to share just yet, so i am sharing a copy of megan's beautiful work as she assembles section 1 of the gypsy wife quilt. by the way, she has written a brilliant tutorial on assembling the block sections with partial seams. it's got me thinking they aren't so bad after all! now, just because i finished it and also because there are busy friends out there who are working ahead of the quilt along schedule, i'm sharing the spreadsheet i made for the blocks, broken down by section and month of the quilt along. there is no pressure to work ahead! everyone should feel like they can work at their own pace, whatever that is. click images to enlarge again, why do they come out different sizes?! you can download a pdf copy of the block chart here. or, if you are viewing it on your cell phone, you can click on the chart to enlarge the image, and then take a screen shot, which you can then zoom in on. it might be handier for some people to have a copy on their phone. if you are confused about the "block id" column, that was for personal use. when i was working my way thru the book the first time around, i found it helpful to give each block an id tag, which i marked in the instructions and in the assembly charts for cross-referencing purposes. you can just ignore it. i've seen several section 1's already assembled on instagram at the hashtag #GypsyWifeQuiltSection1 (and even some section 2's!) it's pretty exciting to see so many of them coming together. now that my sewing room renovations are complete, as of yesterday, i can assembly my own section 1 this weekend. we can do this, friends! as always, you can follow along with everyone over on instagram at #GypsyWifeQuiltAlong2016.

Big news! I’m a little late to the party, but I’m joining and cohosting the 2019 Gypsy Wife quilt along with @ScrappyViolet . And it starts this week! You don’t want to miss this. Trust me.

It’s the last of the two assembly weeks for the Jen Kingwell’s Gypsy Wife Quilt Sew-along. This week you’ll be...

I haven't blogged in quite some time... I think life just got very busy between family and work. The loss of several people... family and f...